Shimmer

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(thing) by PopeFelix (1.8 y) (print)   (I like it!) Fri Sep 07 2001 at 22:29:39

1991 album by Big Hat. The album is heavy on the ethereal and goth musical themes. This was my first, and still favorite Big Hat CD. For me, each song conveys a very keen sense of loss, anguish, anger, or disdain.

All lyrics Copyright 1990-1991 Big Hat (BMI)

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:05:50

Shim"mer (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shimmered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Shimmering.] [OE. schimeren, AS. scimerian; akin to scimian, sciman, to glitter, D. schemeren, G. schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. scima a light, brightness, Icel. skima, Goth. skeima a torch, a lantern, and E. shine. &root;157. See Shine, v. i.]

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.

The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson.

 

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Shim"mer, n.

A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.

TWo silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil, diffused . . . a trembling twilight-seeming shimmer through the quiet apartment. Sir W. Scott.

 

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